Navigation channel "Danube-Black Sea"

Navigation channel "Danube-Black Sea"

Both sea and river waterways connect in the estuary ports. For example most of modern big ports, such as London, New York, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and St. Petersburg are estuary ports. Port’s structures are located on the banks of the river or in pools dug in banks. Furthermore most ports are located away from the sea, so there is no need in building protection structures near the port. Estuary ports’ main objective is to transship goods from sea vessels to river vessels and vice versa.

Deep-water navigation channel “DANUBE-BLACK SEA”

Relevance of the Ukrainian national project “Danube corridor”.

Both sea and river waterways connect in the estuary ports. For example most of modern big ports, such as London, New York, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp and St. Petersburg are estuary ports. Port’s structures are located on the banks of the river or in pools dug in banks. Furthermore most ports are located away from the sea, so there is no need in building protection structures near the port. Estuary ports’ main objective is to transship goods from sea vessels to river vessels and vice versa.

Main objective is to support rising demand for reliable, effective, safe and environmentally friendly transport connections between Europe and Asia, and to create a network of zonal centers of informational and navigational provision of new channel’s communication system, and to develop international port and economic cooperation, tourism, culture and sport.

Competitiveness of this project: the new channel and a new port in the Danube mouth are heavily linked with the main trans-European transport rout. It is linked to the southern international transport corridor(ITC) across Black and Azov sea, and it is linked with channel Rhine-Main-Danube. While it is linked to the northern ITC across “North-South” transport corridor.

New rout has some advantages:

An ability of system cooperation with Crete transport corridors numbers 2,5,7, also with transport
systems ESKATO and TRASEKA;

2 to 3 times increase in ship tonnage, and coverage of other Ukrainian port’s deficits.

The creation of the new gateway channel “Danube-Zhebriyanov harbor” would decrease economic
and political pressure from Romania, hence the EU as well.

An ability to decrease tariffs for ships travelling in both directions would appear.